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I feel that these 5 videos directly and indirectly touch upon some of the key themes of trans-formative mobile learning. I especially liked Sugatra Mitra's comment that "it's not about making learning happen, it's about letting it happen" through educational self-organizing. Mobile learning is an arena where teachers have to play the role of facilitator and simply "set a process in motion" and let learning unfold with the use of new tech tools that produce unpredictable outcomes. When learning happens on-the-go, the dividing line between education and everyday life becomes blurred and frequently dissolves away to spark relevant learning.

This was one of the best articles for MAT622 becuase it shows mobile not as handy mobile device, but as a tool that helps to serve real-world problems. This use of mobile doesn't ask "how can we do what we've always done with other things with mobile," but instead asks what new things can we do with these new technologies.

An excellent short summary of some of the issues Ed Tech Specialists experience when working / supporting iPads and how to correct them. This article is a great PD piece to share with teachers returning from iPad workshops thinking they are now integrating technology into their classroom. It is a reminder that good class content, lesson planning and intentional tech integration are the keys to success with the iPad (or any mobile device for that matter).

This is another great article for MAT622. With Imovie you really can learn almost everything you need to know in five minutes. Imovie makes the Ipad a content creator.

Great site demonstrating the MANY different ways students can use ipads

Great sire with lots of information relating to elearning

This whole week I'v tried to find an article I thought would best show the transformation of learning through mobile tools, but I kept going back to the idea that it's not about the technology it's about learning. As I pondered with the idea of how to do we help people understand this concept, and I keep thinking that it needs to be a change in pedagogy. I came across this diagram that would help support this idea of learning and what 21st century pedagogy looks like. Although it is kind of broad, I can easily see where mobile technology fits in and how it could support the transformation of learning. I feel like we need to have this kind of vision in order to understand how the technologies will transform the learning.

This is a favorite because Evernote is one of my all-time favorite apps. It is so much more than just a place to organize notes. I love that it's accessible from any device. I use the photo, audio, and formatting features quite a bit, and I am only touching the surface of how to get the most out of this app.

Some great ipad apps for science.  (including environmental science, physics, etc)

Like Jessica I kept going back to the idea that "it's not about technology, it's about the learning." Yet after much mucking about, I kept coming back to this article which one of you introduced early in the semester. To my "pre-app developer" self, it was a real eye opener and inspiration to imagine all these topics being covered (some better than others) in this visual, graphic mode and living on one device. So in the spirit of inspiration, I offer this article as a favorite.

An exploration of learning using mobile devices would not be complete without reading the most current Horizon Report.  One of my very favorite pull out concepts from the report is something tech integrators say over and over - "Digital literacy is less about tools and more about thinking". The Horizon Reports lays out a good case for mobile tools and personalized learning. A must read.

Not sure this was exactly a reading we had to do, or a website that was assigned, but I did stumble on this large heap of a useful website while doing an early assignment. Some great app recommendations in there.

This article is a must read for me because it contains so many resources in one blog. I also like blogs because they come from real people, like teachers, who are actually living and working with these apps everyday. I relate well to Bloom's Taxonomy and I like the comparisons the blogger makes between apps and Blooms. Its a great tool to keep as a reference. If we really want to be transforming learning with mobile tools this is a great way to start thinking about it in the simplest of ways.

Evernote is a great multiple use tool for organization and workflow that I would recommend for transforming mobile learning.

"As new, more mobile technologies have entered the classroom, often in the backpacks of students, teachers become orchestrators of projects and seek the best emerging digital environments for improving motivation, relevance and depth of learning."

I would post this news article on a must-read list for transforming learning with mobile devices because it is not only a real-life example, it is a success story of young students learning and teaching with mobile devices. When I read it, I felt inspired by their creativity and ability to share their learning with over 400 people. I think many teachers would love to see their students producing material not only for the classroom, but available to anyone in the world.